Rooksmoor Press. Katie Beard. 44 High Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1AN, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1452 942139. Website: https://www.rookmoorpress.co.uk.
Roger Moore. Roger Moore’s The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die. 2023. 224 pages. 245 x 165 mm. Monotype Baskerville on Heritage Bookwhite 120 gsm with 20 stills and images from Live and Let Die, plus additional details and cover illustration by Mark Levy. Printed on a Heidelberg cylinder. 350 copies: 349 hardback in Colorado Jordan cloth with 2 colour foil front and spine, housed in white foiled slipcase, price: £350; single copy no. 007 bound in leather, NFS. All bound by Blissetts, London. While filming his first James Bond film, Live and Let Die, Roger Moore agreed to keep a day-by-day diary throughout the film’s production. This stunning new limited edition is letterpress-printed and typeset from Monotype hot metal type. It Includes a new foreword and signed postcard by Live and Let Die actress Madeline Smith and a reproduction of two tarot cards featured in the film.
Intima Press Editions. Mindy Belloff. 32 Union Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel: +1 9174124134. Website: https://IntimaPress.com.
William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Othello | Mindy Belloff. The Tragedy of Desdemona. 2023. 192 pages (Othello), 150 pages (Desdemona). 3.5 x 2.75 x 1.75 in. Luminari on Mohawk Superfine (Othello) and Jenson on Johannot Arches cotton rag papers (Desdemona) with over 50 illustrations by Mindy Belloff. Printed on a Vandercook Uni III A/B. 36 copies: 26 miniature book dos-à-dos binding with letterpress printed St. Armand cotton rag covers and Suminagashi marbled edges printed, sewn, and bound by Mindy Belloff; book with LCD screen video card (2 x 4 in) with 8:44 minute cinematic video, USB port, and letterpress printed accordion of video credits, inside a unique custom box with 2 hidden drawers by Celine Lombardi, price: $2100; 10 copies in quarter leather binding with leather tips and onlays, title in gold with 23-karat gilt head and tail, inside a unique custom box (11 x 8 x 2.25 in) with brown cloth wrappers, red suede cloth, and cut-out sections to cradle the book and video card, designed by Mindy Belloff and bound by Celine Lombardi, price: on request. This double-bound miniature pairs a Shakespearean text with historic and contemporary poetry and writings, along with current news headlines and statistics on femicide. The layered narrative includes a cinematic video in dialog with gender issues. A percentage of sales are donated to help support victims of domestic violence.
Books Illustrated. Mike Emeny. Hillside, Coombe Road, Salisbury, Wilts SP2 8BL, UK. Tel: +44 (0)7771635777. Website: https://www.booksillustrated.com.
Michael Morpurgo. War Horse. 2023. 208 pages. 240 x 170 mm. Caslon on Munken Natural Rough 150 gsm with 16 colour illustrations by Christian Birmingham. Printed on Nomad Letterpress. 580 copies: 400 hardback in cloth, 16 colour illustrations, gold embossed to the front and spine, printed marbled endpapers, silk ribbon, head and tail bands, housed in a plush-lined slipcase, price: £295; 154 hardback in full leather binding with white, black, grey, and gold embossed to the front and spine, 16 colour illustrations with frontispiece illustration tipped in, printed marbled endpapers, gilding on three paper edges, silk ribbon, head and tail bands, housed in a replica leather WWI despatch bag with gold embossing to the spine, price: £700; 26 on Magnani Pescia Edition 200 gsm in hardback with full vellum binding over thick chamfered boards with white, black, grey, and gold embossed to the front and spine, 17 colour illustrations 15 of which are tipped-in, hand marbled endpapers, gilding in real gold to three paper edges, 3 silk ribbons in green, red and yellow, head and tail bands, housed in an embossed leather solander box with plush lined interior, price: £2,500. Within the solander box are two drawers containing (1) a full set of prints signed by the illustrator and (2) a letter of receipt and a one penny coin minted between 1914 and 1918. All bound at Ludlow Bookbinders. Each book includes a donation to Farms for City Children which was set up by Michael Morpurgo. Farms for City Children is a charity enabling children from disadvantaged communities to experience the adventure of working together on farms in the heart of the British countryside. To give an additional donation, visit the website above.
The Old School Press. Martyn Ould. Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QD, UK. Tel: +44 (0)129724689. Website: https://www.theoldschoolpress.com.
Eleanor Burkett. Washi Memories. 2023. 115 pages. 280 x 205 mm. Fournier italic on Matrix Fine Laid and Mohawk Superfine, with 30 photographs, 13 samples of Japanese hand-made paper and 9 Japanese calligraphic titles. Printed on a Western 30 proof press. 150 copies quarter bound with turquoise cloth and spine label by Ludlow Bookbinders, with suminagashi by Sarah Amatt on Abbey Mills laid on the boards, overprinted with Japanese script by Yoko Hashimoto. Price: £250. Photographs of the papermakers of Kamikawasaki in Japan at work in the 1950s, with samples of their papers, and commentary by Eleanor Burkett.
Ninja Press. Carolee Campbell. 5040 Noble Ave, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, USA. Tel: +18183703308. Website: https://www.ninjapressbooks.com.
Carolee Campbell. Report From Zuni: 1986. 2022. 14 pages. 298 x 199 mm. Meridien on Handmade Barcham Green Charter Oak. Printed on a Vandercook Universal I flat bed proof press. 70 copies printed and bound by Carolee Campbell in paper wrappers handmade by Andrea Peterson using corn stalks and leaves in colors of tan to brown and backed with a U.S.G.S. Survey map of Zuni, New Mexico; single section binding sewn with red silk; includes cover label. Price $225. A memoir written following a trip to observe the culmination of the Shalako, an ancient Zuni tribal ceremony that takes place near the Winter Solstice in Zuni, New Mexico, marking the end of the ceremonial year. With the exception of invited guests, the Shalako is closed to outsiders.
Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.
Jamie McKendrick. Gifts of the Magi. 2023. 16 pages. 170 x 245 mm. Alcuin Baskerville on Zerkall for text; Rudolf Koch’s Locarno italic for titling. Printed on an Autovic. 145 copies printed with 15 as loose sheets for binders and 130 quarter bound in house, using a gold and blue paste paper handmade in house, with title printed on the spine cloth on the front. Price: £48. Second collaboration with Jamie McKendrick, winner of numerous national and international writing prizes. This new collection of poems plays with traditional ideas concerning wise men and rich gifts.
Greenboathouse Press. Jason Dewinetz. Box 1551, Vernon, BC V1T8C2, CA. Tel: +1 2509389042. Website: http://www.greenboathouse.com/.
Jason Dewinetz. If the Winds Come. 2023. 24 pages. 6.25 x 10.75 in. Romanée on Hahnemühle Bugra (three colours), a unique ink painting on the title page. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 70 copies: 50 cased into a sewn-boards binding with a revealed label through a Cave paper spine and Fabriano Roma over the boards, price: CAD$500; 20 bound by Jacek Tylkowski in Komorniki, Poland, cased in a full sanded-leather Bradel binding with a haptic onlay in three pieces spanning the back, spine, and front board, with title foil-stamped on spine, and held in a full-cloth drop-spine box with a recessed leather spine label, price: CAD$2250 (OP). The onlay is cut to match the outline of the unique ink painting on each copy’s title page, making each binding unique as well.
Serena Smith. Serena Smith, 8a The Oval, Oadby, Leicester LE2 5JB, UK. Tel: +447986839363. Website: http://www.serenasmith.org/.
Serena Smith. Heteroglossia. 2023. 43 pages. 570 x 470 mm. Times New Roman on Simili Japon 225 gsm, nine hand-coloured stone lithographs by Smith. Printed with direct transfer lithography press and hand offset lithography press (Hunter Penrose ‘Imperial’). Edition of 7 + 3 APs. Case bound by Smith in hand-washed cotton book cloth with letterpress text. POA. Alongside quotations from technical printing handbooks, this lithographic glossary contains a miscellany of information from other fields of knowledge. Its material aesthetics are inspired by the 19th century anatomical volumes of surgeon-anatomists Robert Carswell and Joseph Maclise, and its written content makes subtle allusion to the lives and bodies embedded in stone lithography’s materials, process, and printed ephemera. Online images available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/91351315@N03/albums/72177720311364383.
E-publication at https://issuu.com/serenajanesmith/docs/glossary_text_for_issuu.
Marcona Press. Virginia McClure, 887 McMeekin Place, Lexington, KY 40502, USA. Tel: +18599829744. Website: https://www.marconapress.com/.
Carolyn Reading Hammer. Woman with a Book In Her Hand. 2021. 25 pages. 254 x 165 mm.
Emerson on Hahnemühle Biblio. Printed on Vandercook and iron hand press. 40 copies bound by Virginia McClure in a double pamphlet with a soft cover and wrapper of St. Armand Canal card stock, with title printed on the wrapper. Price: $75.
Titan & Weald. Isak Applin, 3457 82nd St. #6C, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, USA. Tel: +1773 456 8801. Website: https://titanandweald.com/home.html.
Isak Applin. Oh, the Wind and Rain. 2022. 29 pages. 255 x 170 mm. Monotype Bembo on dampened white Zerkall Book, 10 wood engravings by Applin. Printed on Albion iron handpress. 30 copies: 22 bound in-house at Titan & Weald, quarter-bound in black cloth and Evergreen Bugra papers with design printed in black, label on spine, price: $575; 8 sets of the engravings printed on loose sheets and encased in portfolios, including title page, contents page, epigraph and colophon (total of 14 sheets printed recto, 265 x 185 mm), and enclosed in drop-spine boxes (290 x 200 x 20 mm) covered in black cloth and Evergreen Bugra papers and made by Campbell-Logan Bindery, price: $575.
The ten wood engravings were feverishly drawn during the early months of the Covid pandemic, while the constant wail of ambulances surrounded the artist’s home and studio in Queens. The prints attempt to record the trauma of the moment and recall a world that suddenly vanished.
